Support for tapered display-boxes



A. M. BIL'LSTIEIN.` SUPPORT FOR TAVERED `DISPLAY BOXES. APPLICATION f [ZLD muso. 1919.

1,368,016. Patented Feb. 8,1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFlcE.

AARON M. BILLSTEIN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSGNOR TO THE LORD BALTI- MORE PRESS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A. CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SUPPORT FOR TAPERED DISPLAY-BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed July 30, 1919. Serial No. 314,250.

T o all w homz'z may concern Be it known that I, AARON M. BiLLsTErN, a citizen 01"' the United States, and residing at Baltimore city, Maryland, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Supports for Tapered Display-Boxes, Whi" h the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boxes usually made of paper or similar material for containing articles of merchandise and adapted to be placed in the show cases and Windows of stores to display the contents or" the boxes to possible customers. Tt has particular reference to the means' used for properlyT supporting the goods in said boxes to best exhibit them to customers'. The idea is common in this art of supporting the display boxes or the goods in them at an angle, the part farthest removed from the front of the shoiv case being highest. This has been accomplished either by tilting the box or by y providing a support in the box which will raise the goods to an incline. Tapered boxes have been used for this purpose With dilterent forms of supports formed either as a part or" them or placed in them. My present invention consists in a particular form of support which is made as a separate article of manufacture and which can be easily inserted in a tapered box forming in a sense a removable false bottom holding the goods on the same incline as that of the top edges of the box. Tt may be placed in the box before the goods are placedl in it and the box with the support and goods both in it may be shipped to the retail dealer. In that Way the retailer merely removes the cover and places the box in proper position in his show case and does not have to go to the trouble of adjusting or arranging a snpport. The invention resides in the particular form or structure of the support made as a separate article of manufacture and its novel features will be apparent from the tolloiving description and claims. In. the drawings- Figure 1 is a cross section of a tapered box having my invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2 2 or Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is'a plan view of the blank used as my support.

In the drawings I have shown a tapering box which has greater Width than length, but it will of course be understood that the invention is not limited to that particular style of box since boxes are often made of much greater length than breadth. The box shown has a rectangular bottom Wall 10, a rectangular front Wall 11 and a rectangular rear Wall 12. It also hastapering side Walls 18 and 14, the tops of those Walls being at -an angle from the top of the Wall 12 to the top of the Wall 1l.

My support, as Will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, embodies a flat rectangular section 15 Which is adapted yto lt inthe box, one edge resting on the bottom oit the box at the lower edge of the front Wall 11 and extending from that point at an angle upwardly to the rear Wall, thus furnishing What may be called an inclined false bottom. .fit each side of the section 15 there is a V- shaped flange 16, 17. The top of the Vs in these flanges is slightly below the upper edge 18 of the section 15 and extends parallel to that edge. The top of the V is suliciently far from the edge 18 to make the distance from the point 19 to the point 2O equal in length to the longer leg of a right angle triangle of which the line 20-29 is the hypotenuse and one angle of Which'is equal to the angle between lines 20-29 and 20- 19. The flanges 16 and 17 have'their outer 'or loiver edges on an angle to the end'edges of the section 15 which is substantially the same as the angle which the top and bottom edges of the side Walls 18 and lfl'may be with each other. There are rectangular flaps 21, 22 integral With the flaps 16, 17 and joined thereto at the top of the V with a scoring line 28-24. These flaps are rectangular in form and of the same Width as the top of the V shape flanges 16, 17; There is an integral extension 25 on the edge 18 or' the section 15 there being a line of scoring in the material at the point 18. This extension may also be scored on the line 26 parallel to the line 18.- Flaps 27 and 28 maybe formed by cutting the section 15 and'may be bent down so as to furnish means of additional strength to the support if desired.

From the above description taken in connection with the'drawings it Will be observed that the support is made from a single blank and that it may be folded on the scoring lines into very compact form. lt can be easily and quickly placed in position in the box. In use the side flanges 16 and 17 are bent down at right angles tothe section 15 and vis claimed as new and desired rest at their edges on the bottom 10 ofthe box, thus supporting the section 15 parallel tothe top edge oIn the box. The naps 2l and 22 'maybe bent at right angles to the flanges 16, 17, thus extending under a portion of the section 15 near its highest point and serving as additional means Jor supporting them. The scored line at 18 permits bending the extension 25 up along the face of the rear wall of' the box and a scoring 26 permits its end to be bent outward, as shown in F 1 or in over the material in the box.

Y n the form of box shown, the bottom wall 10 is at right angles to the end walls 11 and 12 and thus the inclined supporting section by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination of' a separate and removable support comprising a flat section, adapted to fit transversely in a box varymg in depth uniformly from front to back and open at the top, and resting at one end on the bottom of the `box at the end of least depth and having integral side flanges near theother end, the side flanges having a taper substantially the same as that of the box and being'bent at right angles to said section whereby they will rest at their lower edges on the bottom of the box at the end of greatest depth and will support'said section in said box substantially parallel to the top edges of the box, and an integral end flap on said flatsection scored to bend up against the inner facerof that end of the box which has theY greatest depth and scored along the line of the top of that end.

2.` The combination of a separate and removable support comprising a flat section, adapted to fit transversely in a box varying in depth uniformly from front to back and open at the top, and resting at one end on the bottom of the box at the end of least depth and having integral side flanges near est depth andwill support said section in said box substantially parallel to the top edges of the box, the said taperedside flanges tional support for vsaid flat section.

3. A blank for a support to beused in display boxes comprising a fiat rectangular section of flexible material, of' two integral but scored flanges on opposite sides of said flat section starting at a point a short distance from one end of the flat section and tapering toward the other end and adapted to be bent at right angles to said section, integral scored fiaps of uniform wldthV extending from the ends of said tapered-flanges at their widest point and adapted to be bent at right angles to said flanges and to stand at right angle-toand under said flat section, and an integralfiap'extension from said flat section at the end provided with the side flanges scored to bend in the opposite direction with relation to saidrectangular section 'from said flaps. l

4L. As an article of manufacture, a support for display boxes comprising a flat rectangular section of paper-likematerial having integral V-shaped side flanges each united thereto along one side of the V with a scoring line, the top of the V being suieiently far from one end of the section to make the distance from the outer point of the said. top to the other end 'of the section approximately equal to the larger leg of a right angle triangle of which a line of the same length as the adjacent sides ofsaid rectangular section is the hypotenuse -and one angle of which is equal to the angle between the sides of the flanges forming the sharper angle of the V.`

5. As an article ofl manufacture a'support for display boxes comprising a flat rectangular sect-ion of paper-like material, integral similar side flanges tapering from one end to the other along the sides of said rectangular section and scored along the lines Vof connection to bend at right angles to serve as supports and an integral end flap on said flat section nscored to bend up from said flatv c section in theopposite direction from said side flanges and having a parallel scoreline beyond said 'line ofconnection to said liat section permitting bending in the opposite Y direction.

In testimony whereof I affix m signature;

AARON M. BIL sittin. 

